Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Welcome to Days 15-18 of December Daily! Running a bit behind here, but whatever. It's the season, and as long as I get them done (preferably before next November...), it'll be fine.

Hello & welcome to Days 13 & 14 of December Daily! For Day 13, I went with 2 stories: Violet reading in her school assembly and Zachary going on the potty twice in a day! The plaid star is from Ali Edwards  Chipboard Bundle 1 . I seriously need to find a way to put a dancing emoji on the page for Zach. I mean, look at his face! He was so proud of himself. For Day 14, it was all about making Sugar Cookies! I make them every year, but this was the first year that I gave the job of decorating to the girls. They did such an awesome job. The Very Merry word art is from Ali Edwards Christmas Star .

Welcome to Days 11 & 12 of December Daily! For Day 11, I really didn't have a story to go with, but then realized I could do a gratitude list. I decided to go with some hexagon text shapes to switch it up. The hearts are from Ali Edwards  Heart Digital Story Stamp  and  Gratitude  is from  Daily Digital Story Stamp . For Day 12, I used the story of me & Zach at Pre-School on a Thursday morning. The heart you  and the heart (recolored) is from Ali Edwards Heart Digital Story Stamp . Gosh darn it I love his smile. 

Welcome to Days 09 & 10 of December Daily! Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? The truth is, I had no photos or stories for 2 days in a row. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Pretty sure you get the point.  So I decided to improvise and take 2 quotes from an Ali Edwards freebie that she offered back in 2017 and make them full pages. Simple. Easy and Done.

Welcome to Days 07 & 08 of December Daily!!  For Day 07, I went with the story of Keith's work Christmas party. Of course, the only photo I take is of the food that we had and 2 videos of the entertainment. Season of Joy digital stamp is from Ali Edwards Christmas Star . Merry digital stamp is from a freebie that Ali offered a while ago. Day 08 we were at a family gathering, but I totally forgot to take some pictures. Instead, I grabbed the circles from Ali Edwards Chipboard Bundle 1 , Chipboard Bundle 2 , and Variety Sticker Bundle .

Welcome to Day 05 & Day 06 of December Daily! My Day 05 story is of the Christmas Brunch that we have at the Selah Mom's Group that I'm a part of at church. Word art and hearts are from Ali Edwards Eat Digital Story Stamp. For Day 06, I let the kids decorate the Christmas tree and got them their yearly ornaments. Christmas Tree background and word art is from Ali Edwards DD Prep Party that she hosted back in November (content is still available).

Welcome to Days 03 & 04 of December Daily! For my Day 03 story, I decided to write about Violet cutting her hair off. I know it's not Christmas themed, but it was my only story for the day, so I went with it. This was a really easy page to put together. The word art is from  Ali Edwards   Heart Happy . For my Day 04 story, I went with me doing all the gift wrapping for the nieces and nephews. The word art is from Ali Edwards DD Prep Party that she hosted back in November (content is still available)

Welcome to Day 2 of December Daily! I almost thought that I wouldn't have a story for today, but then Dominique started putting up her art wall, and I just rolled with it. I quickly put this together using the Project Life app with the filler card from the Comfort & Joy card collection, and then added the digital brush from  Ali Edwards Heart Happy .  All in all, really easy to put together and it's done!

Hello and welcome to December Daily. You have been forewarned. If you're not familiar with December Daily, I would highly suggest checking out Ali Edwards , and her plethora of DD posts , who is the mastermind behind this brilliant concept. In short form, make a scrapbook (paper, digital, hybrid) of the Christmas season. Photos + Words. That's it.  This will be my 6th year doing this and I still love it. I plan on just taking a story a day, whether it Christmas related or not, and going with it. It will never be perfect and with 3 kids running around, nothing ever is, so I will just make do. The story for Day 1, is of course, the Church Worship Team & Choir. I put it together using the Project Life app and used the Comfort & Joy collection for the filler & journal cards. 

Hello December! And December means that I can start up my December Daily project! I'm doing it all digitally this year in the 8x8 size. While I'd love to do a physical project, I just don't have the time or money this year. Which I'm OK with, as I can print out the photo book whenever I have the chance. Anyway, here's Days 1-5 for your enjoyment!    

Finally able to sit down and complete my December Daily pages! I originally thought that I didn't have a story for the 22nd, but when I got home, I got a nice surprise from Keith and the girls. [caption id="attachment_2556" align="alignnone" width="1379"] Journal card from the Seasonal Snapshot Edition on the Project Life App[/caption] We started our Christmas gatherings on the 23rd, starting with my Mom. We had a pretty laid back supper of pizza and chicken, let the kids play around and opened gifts.   [caption id="attachment_2567" align="alignnone" width="1379"] Filler cards from  Seasonal Snapshot Edition and journal card from  Hello December 2015 Edition on the Project Life App.  [/caption] Because I had so many photos from this evening, I made two 4x6 collages and put them together in the Project Life App. Days 24 + 25 will be up shortly!

Christmas Eve! And man, today was busy. I worked from 5am-1pm (and work was insane all day long!), and got home just in time to clean up a bit before Keith's Mom & Step-Dad stopped by for a quick visit before Keith went to work and I took the girls' to my Dad's place. Whew! Because I had a lot of photos, I made today into a 2-page spread, which worked really well. I took my favorite photo of Dominique outside with the barn cats, editied it in PicTapGo (my go to for easy photo editing), enlarged it to a 6x8, added some word art from Ali Edwards and called it good. And I love how it turned out. [caption id="attachment_2568" align="alignnone" width="1380"] Word art is from Hello Winter from Ali Edwards[/caption] For the second page, I took my 3 favorite photos (didn't want it looking too cluttered), added a journal card and called it a day. [caption id="attachment_2569" align="alignnone" width="1379"] Journ...

Oh man, today was busy. We had Violet's Kindergarten Christmas Concert, where she did awesome! She did all her songs and poems with the rest of the school and behaved herself nicely. We also had my nephew's 4th birthday party in the evening, which was followed by my weekly Girls' Night with my best friends. [caption id="attachment_2564" align="alignnone" width="1380"] The journal card is from  Oh What Fun Christmas Value Kit in the Project Life App.[/caption] On Wednesday, me and Keith enjoyed a quiet evening together after the girls' went to bed. Food and an episode of White Rabbit Project on Netflix. [caption id="attachment_2555" align="alignnone" width="1379"] Both cards are from the  Oh What Fun Christmas Value Kit in the Project Life App.[/caption]    

Today's December Daily story is brought to you by my Mom's birthday and putting up her tree. [caption id="attachment_2515" align="alignnone" width="1379"] Filler and journal cards are from Hello December Kit on the Project Life App. [/caption] It's a yearly tradition that every year on my Mom's birthday, we all get together to celebrate and then help set-up and decorate the tree. This year my Mom and sister supervised, while the 2 big girls' decorated. And they had a blast.

Hello there and welcome to Day 17 of December Daily. Today's photo is pretty simple. I was able to go to church this evening and enjoy the Christmas songs and message and took a photo of the stage, just as it was. I put the date on there for reference, but just left it otherwise.

Welcome here! I'm participating in the December Daily project, put on by the wonderful Ali Edwards. I fell a little bit behind with getting sick and Christmas preparations. But I'm back to creating my pages and posting them here for display. Today's story is of the Christmas hamper that my Mom signed us up for. I'm always surprised at how much they give, and always feel very blessed. For this page in the Project Life app, I used the card from the Oh What Fun Christmas Value Kit and just did my jouraling on there. Really liked how it turned out.

Hey there! Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been a bit busy around here, although I have been keeping up in making my December Daily pages. Without much further explanation, here's Days 11-15 Day 11 is our annual Christmas card. I went really simple this year and kind of like how it turned out. Day 12 was all about making the Gingerbread houses. Violet did all her own decorating, while I did all of Dominique's house. Day 13 was the story of finding Dominique sleeping on the couch in the morning. Day 14 was watching Violet make Christmas cards for her Grandparents Day 15 is all about Dominique snuggling with Daddy.

Hi there! Sorry for the lack of posting my December Daily pages. I caught a really bad Strep Throat and Viral Infection last week that kicked my butt for a couple days. All I can say is Thank God for Penicillin. Anyways, because I was sick, those days weren't too eventful, but I did manage to find some stuff to document. Day 8 was a sick day. And I had to work. But one of the ladies on the December Daily o Facebook Group posted a question, asking us to ask Siri (on the iPhone) what she was doing for Christmas. The results were hilarious. So I took some screenshots of the answers that I got and made a page out of it. Day 9 continued the yearly tradition of buying the girls' new ornaments for the Christmas Tree. I picked them up while I was grocery shopping and let the girls' chose which ones they wanted. Violet chose Belle (Beauty and the Beast) and Dominique chose Ariel (The Little Mermaid) Day 10 was my really sick day. I went to work for a couple hours until my boss came ...

Welcome to Day 7 of December Daily! Even though I'm battling a sore throat (thankfully not strep), I did manage to get my Christmas tree assembled and decorated this evening! I documented today's activity with 2 pages. I had one photo of the girls' that I knew I wanted to use by itself, and then put some other photos on the next page with the journaling.   I edited all my photos in PicTapGo and used a journaling card from the  Hello December 2015 Kit. I love how it turned out.

Hey there! Welcome to days 5+6 of December Daily! These 2 days were pretty easy to document, and almost too easy to create! Lol. For Day 5, I used cards from the  Merry & Bright Mini Kit in the Project Life App. This day was a bit difficult to think of something to document, but then I remembered that Keith had sent me out to get coffee (a rare treat, as we usually make it at home), and I got myself a Mocha (3/4 hot chocolate and 1/4 coffee) as a treat for myself. And it helps that the Christmas cups are cute as well. Day 6 was the first snow day of the School Year! Although Violet wasn't too sure what to make of it. We had quite a bit of snow/ice fall during the night and by the early morning, we had a couple inches, which made the roads bad (and in some places, near impassable), never mind that we still had a winter storm watch going on, with high winds. I did the journaling on the photo through the Over App, although I did have to play around a little bit to figure it out i...